"The Shopping Centers Market in 32 Cities and Regional Areas of Russia, Results of 2011 and Prognosis till 2015".

About the Shopping Centers Market in 32 cities and Regional Areas of Russia, Results of 2011 and Prognosis till 2015 Research The Shopping Centers Market in 32 Cities and Regional Areas of Russia, Results of 2011 and Prognosis till 2015 Research contains description of the commercial real estate market conditions in 32 cities and regional areas of Russia, the comparative analysis of the shopping centers market in 32 cities and regional areas of Russia, as well as the prognosis for the Russian shopping centers market development till 2015 and description of the key trends during 2011-2012. At the same time the specialists of INFOLine IA ranked the cities of Russia according to total and rentable floorspace at shopping centers, as well as according to per capita saturation with total floorspace in shopping centers. As the information base for the Research there was used a unique data base of Russian shopping centers, both existing and in the process of construction, which includes over 2200 entries.
The Shopping Centers Market in 32 cities and Regional Areas of Russia, Results of 2011 and Prognosis till 2015 presents a brief description of retail trade in Russia according to segments (FMCG, DIY and Household, Home Appliances and Electronics, Fashion and others), including the dynamics of retail trade turnover, the market shares of the major retailers from INFOLINE RETAILER RUSSIA TOP-100.
The Shopping Centers Market in 32 Cities and Regional Areas of Russia, Results of 2011 and Prognosis till 2015 Research includes the following sections:

Section I. Main key figures of the economy and retail trade in Russia, where the specialists of INFOLine IA present an integrated description of the overall conditions of economics, retail trade and commercial real estate markets. Section II. Survey of the retail trade market according to segments (FMCG, home appliances and electronics, DIY and household goods, mobile phones, pharmaceuticals, perfumery and cosmetics, fashion and children’s goods), for each of them the description contains the market volume dynamics, TOP-100 rating structure according to the volume of trading floorspace and sales revenue, the analysis of the market development trends and the share of the largest retailers in the total retail trade volume of the segment.
• Section III. Condition of shopping centers market in cities of Russia, which contains analysis of the overall condition of the shopping centers market in 32 cities and regional areas of Russia, comparative analysis of floorspace commissioning in cities of Russia, estimation of the cities saturation with floorspace in shopping centers per 1000 residents, description of trends and development outlooks for shopping centers market in Russia.
• Section IV. Rating of 30 largest owners of shopping centers in Russia, which includes a rank rating and a rating in terms of total and rentable floorspace of 30 largest companies-owners of commercial real estate in Russia, as well as a look-ahead rating of TOP-30 owners of commercial real estate for 2012 and 2015. The ratings were built on the basis of the shopping centers data base, composed by specialists of INFOLine IA, which includes over 1700 operating multifunctional and shopping complexes as well as over 550 units under construction.
• Section V. Business environment of M&A market of Russia in the segment of commercial real estate, which includes survey of the main trends and analysis of the basic indexes of M&A market (number of the largest M&A transactions, average transactions volume, dynamics of transactions volume of the largest transactions), description of the main development stages of the market, description of the largest transactions in the segment of purchase and sale of operating commercial real estate facilities and those being built (together with the transaction date, the purchaser and seller, location and floorspace of the unit, transaction’s sum and brief description) and estimation of development outlooks for M&A market in Russia.
• Section VI. Conditions of commercial real estate market in each of 32 cities and regional areas of RF, which describes the business environment of the commercial real estate market individually for each of 32 cities and regional areas of the Research (Moscow and Moscow region, St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, Novosibirsk and Novosibirsk region, Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk region, Nizhniy Novgorod and Nizhniy Novgorod region, Samara, Tolyatti and Samara region, Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny and Republic of Tatarstan, Omsk and Omsk region, Chelyabinsk and Chelyabinsk region, Rostov-on-Don and Rostov region, Ufa and Republic of Bashkortostan, Volgograd and Volgograd region, Perm and Perm Territory, Krasnoyarsk and Krasnoyarsk Territory, Voronezh and Voronezh region, Krasnodar and Krasnodar Territory, Izhevsk and Republic of Udmurtia, Lipetsk and Lipetsk region, Stavropol and Stavropol Territory, Yaroslavl and Yaroslavl region, Irkutsk and Irkutsk region, Khabarovsk and Khabarovsk Territory, Vladivostok and Primorye Territory, Orenburg and Orenburg region, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk and Kemerovo region, Astrakhan and Astrakhan region). Individual cities sections contain the following subsections:
• Overall condition of the commercial real estate market, which presents dynamics of shopping centers floorspace commissioning, description of each city’s specific features.
• The major shopping centers of the regional area, their description includes the location of shopping centers, total and rentable floorspace, owners of the shopping centers and commissioning date

It is important to note that the analysts of INFOLine IA composed INFOLine Developer Russia TOP-100, a rating of 100 largest owners of shopping centers in Russia. To this purpose they analyzed over 1500 operating and over 700 being built shopping and multifunctional centers in all cities of Russia with population over 100 thousand people. As the result of polling and questionnaire survey, INFOLine IA obtained factual data regarding 450 owners of shopping and multifunctional centers, which were ranked according to the volume of their rentable trading floorspace and 100 largest owners were included into INFOLine Developer Russia TOP-100. The Shopping Centers Market in 32 Cities and Regional Areas of Russia, Results of 2011 and Prognosis till 2015 presents TOP-30 of the largest owners of shopping centers in Russia.
Besides, INFOLine Developer Russia TOP-100 research contains the following: business references on TOP-35 largest owners of shopping centers, in-depth analysis of shopping centers market of 32 cities and regional areas of RF, including indexes of saturation with trading floorspace in the regional area, rating of the largest owners in the regional area and their description, the list of shopping centers being built and prognosis for their commissioning till 2015. The section of M&A deals contains a complete list of transactions at the commercial real estate market for 2005-2012 (1st quarter).
In the context of preparation of the Shopping Centers Market in 32 Cities and Regional Areas of Russia, Results of 2011 and Prognosis till 2015 research the specialists of INFOLine IA composed a data base of operating and being built shopping centers , which includes the following information:

• designation of the shopping center;
• commissioning deadline;
• type of the shopping center;
• total floor space;
• rentable floor space ;
• number of storeys;
• parking;
• address of the shopping or multifunctional center;
• administration contacts;
• managing company contacts;
• contacts of the owner-company (or developer) and broker.

In the context of preparation of the Market Shopping Centers in 32 Cities and Regional Areas of Russia, Results of 2011 and Prognosis till 2015 Research the specialists of INFOLine IA made use of the following data:

• questionnaire survey, through which there were obtained factual data regarding 500 owners of shopping centers in 120 cities of Russia, which were ranked according to the volume of total and rentable trading floorspace in their ownership;
• interview with representatives of developers, about 400 representatives of shopping centers under construction and 500 representatives of operating shopping centers were questioned;
• reports of consulting firms (Jones Lang LaSalle, Astera, Colliers International, Becar, GVA Sawyer, Maris Properties and others), materials of developers and managing companies (press-releases, web-sites content, annual and quarterly reports, mass media publications);
• data from Federal State Statistics Service, Federal Antimonopoly Service, Ministry of Economy Development as well as information from regional government authorities (Ministry of Economy, departments of consumer market development);
• Branch news of trade-administrative construction in RF and the archive of materials that had accumulated since 2001 on the subject of Construction and Retail chains, as well as mass media materials (printed press, electronic mass media, federal and regional information agencies, materials from retail chains and supplying companies: press-releases, web-sites materials, reports and investment memorandums). The Shopping Centers Market in 32 Cities and Regional Areas of Russia, Results of 2011 and Prognosis till 2015 Research is intended for quick familiarizing with and superficial comparative analysis of shopping centers markets in regional areas of RF. The Research makes it possible to solve quite a number of problems, which would take to much time to solve using internal resources (the development department of a retail chain or the marketing department of a developing company or an owner of commercial real estate) or would be too costly: ranking and comparison of regional areas in terms of saturation with floorspace at shopping centers, as well as estimation of the investment attractiveness of each of 32 cities and regional areas for implementation of development projects; search for potential partners, as well as formation of the potential partners and competitors data base;
• competitive analysis.

The end-users of the Shopping Centers Market in 32 Cities and Regional Areas of Russia, Results of 2011 and Prognosis till 2015 Research could be as follows:

business development departments and management of retail chains in different segments (FMCG, home appliances and electronics, DIY, fashion etc.);

developers and managing companies, operating at the commercial real estate market;

sales departments of companies rendering services for shopping centers (equipment, software, engineering communication systems etc.);

consulting companies, operating at the commercial real estate market;

financial companies: banks, investment companies, international and Russian investment funds.

The distinctive features of the Shopping Centers Market in 32 Cities and Regional Areas of Russia, Results of 2011 and Prognosis till 2015 Research are as follows:

• rating of TOP-30 owners of commercial real estate, which includes a ranked rating and an operational rating (total and rentable floorspace);
• comparative analysis of shopping centers market in each of 32 cities and regional areas of RF, which shape over 80% of the total supply of shopping centers floorspace in Russia;
• fundamental information base of the Research: data base of shopping centers of Russia, composed by the specialists of INFOLine IA, which covers over 1700 operating and more than 550 being built multifunctional and shopping complexes;

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